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Chris Cross

@CoffeeWithCross

I like golf. Studio Creative/Design Director at Cold Iron. Figuring out how to accelerate the indie revolution.

Los Angeles Katılım Mart 2015
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John Carmack
John Carmack@ID_AA_Carmack·
My reply to someone considering starting a video game company: The distribution of possible rewards for starting a video game company are generally not very good today. The market is well served, and gaining a foothold requires strong execution on both business and product issues, along with a substantial amount of luck. Plan to burn through seven figures with a not-great chance of making it back. If you do go for it, some bits of advice: Identify your customers clearly before you start. Not just a broad community, but specific people, and imagine them as you make decisions. Initially, build the smallest, most concise game you can imagine anyone paying for. It will still take much longer than you expect. Once something exists, hill-climb the value. Hopefully you will have some elements that clearly bring joy to people, which you can magnify. There will inevitably be tons of things that people find confusing, frustrating, or just boring that you will need to fix.
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Dustin Browder
Dustin Browder@DustinBrowder·
We are ex-Blizzard devs that made an FPS where you control a spaceship. We just added Treasure Hunt, an extraction-light game mode: 🌌5 Zones, AI Enemies, Upgrade Your Ship 🤖Solo Player Ship + AI Crew 📢Use Proxy Chat to make allies or enemies Would you try our demo?
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Forge
Forge@ThetaForgeCo·
I'm convinced the best time to be an indie game dev is now. More tools at your disposal than ever before to create the game of your dreams. Genres and games that weren't available to you before have now completely become possible thanks to the speed of iteration with AI. AAA Game studios have lost the plot.. Indies are the only devs left taking risk and making games that are just fun to play. The golden days are upon us lads. Build that game.
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MR.SOLACE
MR.SOLACE@oopsallsolace·
Some Steam news for a Steam page: Steamworks ...... Works 👀 Multiplayer is now functional! Still early, but connection, syncing, Steam invites and lobbies are now functional. (Splitscreen online too!) #LegionofHonorGame #GodotEngine #WWII #Retro #PSX
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sui ☄️@birdabo·
A JAPANESE DEV BUILT AN APP THAT SHOWS A FAT CAT ON THE SCREEN AND FORCES YOU TO TAKE A BREAK.
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MAX MEMES
MAX MEMES@VitoComedy·
I miss the Burbank Fry's so much It was legitimately the coolest store ever, and it's a tragedy knowing we'll never see anything like it again
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MR.SOLACE
MR.SOLACE@oopsallsolace·
Finally made a Discord server for Legion! Expect: devlogs, updates, cool things, and me breaking things that were working 5 minutes ago!! Join if you want to stay up to date, or if you want to just discuss stuff! (Link in comments.) #LegionofHonorGame #indiedev #PSX #retro
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Coyote vs. ACME
Coyote vs. ACME@CoyoteACMEMovie·
The trailer ACME doesn’t want you to see. Coyote vs. ACME. In theaters August 28.
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NASA
NASA@NASA·
It's our home. This Earth Day, see our planet as our Artemis II astronauts saw it with these new images from the mission.
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Reid Wiseman
Reid Wiseman@astro_reid·
Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
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MR.SOLACE
MR.SOLACE@oopsallsolace·
I love going out into the city, taking photos and turning them into textures for my game! Sometimes directly, sometimes just as reference, but around a good 60-70% of the level textures come from real-world photography I've taken. There's something REALLY satisfying about them!
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